Why Seasonal Drinks Are No Longer Just Festive Add-Ons for Cafes
What was once limited to festive windows is now evolving into a year-round strategy built around micro-seasonal launches tied to weather shifts,…
From Dining to Destination: Restaurant Design Trends to Watch in 2026
Aligning design with food and beverage is a collaborative effort, not the responsibility of the designer alone. It involves close coordination…
Top Egg Brands in India That Crack All the Right Boxes
Eggs may look like a basic food item. But the choice of eggs plays an important role in daily health. In recent years, Indian consumers have started…
Redefining Nightlife Economy: Creativity Powering India After-Dark Culture
As per the reports, India sees a huge untapped potential, with projections suggesting a market value of around $4.64 billion by 2030.
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How Innovative Indian Cuisine Is Reshaping Luxury Hospitality
Luxury today is not about excess but about refined nostalgia, where comfort dishes are recreated with premium ingredients, regional storytelling,…
Dining Reinvented: The 2025 Restaurant Revolution
By 2025, the restaurant industry hasn’t just bounced back—it’s transformed.
Casual Dining Trends to Watch out This Season
The dining landscape is evolving rapidly, and at the heart of this transformation is the rise of casual dining.
How Restaurant Owners Inspire Conscious Dining
The philosophy is now finding its way into restaurants where chef-driven concepts, farm-to-table dining, and curated menus cater to the conscious…
Brewing Fresh: How Tea is taking over the Market
While India has long been the largest tea manufacturer and consumer globally, it is finally time for tea to enter the organised dining landscape, if…
Why Asian Beverages are Becoming India’s Coolest Café Trend
Asian flavours being vibrant, versatile and social-media friendly are perfectly positioned to ride the next growth curve.
Why Regional Cuisine Is the Next Big Thing in Airport F&B
As per the Airports Authority of India, in FY24, domestic air passenger traffic rose to about 30.6 crore, up 13 percent from the previous year.
How Guest Experience & Brand Identity is Crafting the Future of Dining
Dining is no longer about just good food, it’s about emotion, memory, and trust. Today’s guests want more than well-cooked dishes; they want an…
Capital Flows: What’s Attracting Investor Attention
This brings perspectives from investors, homegrown QSR founders, legacy restaurateurs and new-age community-driven café creators to decode the trends…
How Independent Cafes are Driving India’s Cafe Boom
As the café market expands and consumption rises, standalone cafés are the laboratories where trends like specialty brews, experiential menus, and…
India on the Global Map: The New Franchising Epicenter
From sushi and frozen yogurt to QSR, coffee culture and bakery cafés, the world’s most diverse brands are now converging on the Indian market not…
Eating Out Reinvented: From Celebration to Daily Ritual
India’s food services sector is expanding in step with this behavioural shift. NRAI values the industry at INR 5.69 lakh crore with steady growth…
India’s Food Services Market to Cross US$ 125 bn by 2030: Report
Boba Tea and Matcha Tea have seen an 11x and 4x surge in search volumes, respectively, in the last five years.
  • By - Nusra
  • Dec 01, 2025 / 7 MIN READ
From Menus to Margins: Redefining Kitchens and Economics for a ‘Home-First’ Era
The industry is projected to grow over $140 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of around 28.17%.
From a 30 Sqft Shop to London: How Hatti Kaapi Took South Indian Filter Coffee Global
US Mahender, Founder & CEO of Hatti Kaapi, speaks to Restaurant India about the rise of authentic South Indian filter coffee in modern café…
Snacking into the Future
For Bellona Hospitality’s more casual and premium dining formats, starters and small plates comprise 35-40% of total food sales as they have become a…
Designing Experiences: Plating, Space, Storytelling
While good plating and interiors can attract the customers through social media platforms and drive them to the restaurants by 60%.
Menu Creation: The Science of What Sells
According to chefs, when they design a menu, they start from emotion — a memory, a story, a region — and then refine it through science and precision…
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  • Nov 24, 2025 / 11 MIN READ
The Big Trends Reshaping India’s Hotel Kitchens in 2025–26
As per reports, the hotel industry is projected to grow by 4.75% to 9.4% in next few years, targeting both metros as well as smaller cities that has…
Fine Dining Goes Local
Market data also backs the trend, with foodservice market touching USD 77.5 billion in 2024, and as diners become more experiential, close to three-…